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Unit 1: Grit and Success 1. According to Angela Duckworth, what struck her most when she was teaching a New York public school? Answer: What struck her most was that I.Q. was not the only difference between her best and her worst students. Some of her strongest performers did not have stratospheric I.Q. scores. Some of her smartest kids weren’t doing so well. 2. What was the lesson she learned from her teaching experience? Answer: After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. In education the one thing we know how to measure best is I.Q., but in most time what do well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily. 3. According to Angela Duckworth, what is grit? How to build grit? Answer: Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. The best idea about building grit in kids is something called “growth mindset”. It is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. When kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they are much more likely to preserve when they fail, because they don’t believe that failure is a permanent condition. 4. Can you think of other ways to build grit? Answer: Yes, I think there are two ways to build grit. The one is making a suitable plan which obeys your dream in your heart. Solid instructional plan offers people small successes along the way and makes large projects manageable. The other is to v